A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion. When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the ...

Supermassive black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light doesn't have enough energy to escape. Tidal disruption events occur when a black hole consumes ...

The supermassive black hole involved has a mass on the order of a million suns. It's surrounded by what's called an accretion disk, which is a torus of hot gas swirling around the black hole ...

Now, about a year later, we know it's the first tidal disruption event—meaning a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole—identified at visual wavelengths. It's also a rather ...

Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light Feb. 18, 2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk ...

Through the looking glass: The discovery of a supermassive black hole not only challenges assumptions about where these galactic giants reside but also demonstrates the power of combining ...

First observed in February 2024 by astronomers at Valparaiso University in Chile, this behavior grants scientists an unprecedented view of a black hole that seems to be awakening from dormancy ...

A six-panel illustration of a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole. NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) As well as Hubble, researchers also used other instruments like NASA ...

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole ...

Webb witnessed a highly ionised gas whose level of energy was too high to come from something like supernovae, making scientists believe the presence of a supermassive black hole. The researchers ...

Scientists cannot explain how a giant supermassive black hole with ... "We were able to observe the awakening of the massive black hole, [which] suddenly started to feast on gas," researcher ...